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As
I
am
writing
this,
the
European
Parliament
is
debating
the
disastrously
liberticide
copyright
Directive.
After
out
previous
mailing
campaign
(The
European
Parliament
has
rejected
the
copyright
directive,
for
now
(<http://ageinghacker.net/blog/posts/20>))
organized
along
with
a
group
of
GNU
friends,
we
again
contacted
the
Members
of
the
European
Parliament
before
the
forthcoming
vote.
I
wish
to
name
all
the
people
who
helped
by
translating
the
text
into
several
languages
and
improve
it,
working
tirelessly
and
with
very
little
time:
Christopher
Dimech,
Yavor
Doganov,
Rafael
Fontenelle,
Alexandre
Garreau,
Bruno
Haible,
José
Marchesi,
Tom
Uijldert.
Thank
you
all,
friends.
—
Luca Saiu,
2018-09-11
21:50
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The
EU
copyright
directive
in
its
present
form
has
deep
and
wide
implications
reaching
far
beyond
copyright,
and
erodes
into
core
human
rights
and
values.
For
more
information
I
recommend
Julia
Reda’s
analysis
at
<https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/>,
which
is
accessible
to
the
casual
reader
but
also
contains
pointers
to
the
text
of
the
law.
Today
on
June
5,
following
a
few
weeks
of
very
intense
debate,
campaigning
and
lobbying
including
deliberate
attempts
to
mislead
politicians
(<https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180703/16343340172/>),
the
European
Parliament
voted
in
plenary
session
to
reject
the
directive
in
its
current
form
endorsed
by
the
JURI
committee,
and
instead
reopen
the
debate.
It
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Please
call
the
Members
of
the
European
Parliament
right
now,
asking
them
to
support
amendments
74
and
76
on
the
Unitary
Patent
directive.
<http://call.unitary-patent.eu/campaign/call2/unitary-patent-plenary-12-2012?setlang=en>
•
Amendment
74
restates
that
software
is
not
patentable,
as
already
expressed
by
the
European
Parliament
in
2003
and
2005;
•
amendment
76
makes
explicit
the
legislator’s
control,
in
particular
the
European
Parliament’s.
Without
this
amendment
the
European
Patent
Office
would
not
be
accountable
to
enforce
any
limit
on
patentability,
thus
opening
the
door
to
unlimited
US-style
patenting
of
abstract
ideas
including
pure
software.
All
amendments,
including
74
and
76:
<http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+AMD+A7-2012-0001+071-078+DOC+PDF+V0//EN>
The
plenary
vote
will
take
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